ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,496, issued on June 23, was assigned to Corisma Cardiovascular (Hamden, Conn.).
"Transmitting and receiving antennas for transferring power to implanted medical devices" was invented by Orhan Soykan (Hamden, Conn.), Michael Edward Theran (Bethany, Conn.), Jim Kelley (Hamden, Conn.) and Mark Kelley (Hamden, Conn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices and methods are provided for supporting cardiac function. One system comprises an implantable intracardiac device comprising a motor and a pump, an external energy source and a transmitting resonator comprising a magnetic coil and configured to receive a first level of power fro...